Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lewis M. Steel '58, production manager of the Opera Guild, David E. Green '58, former president of the HDC, and Victor N. Claman '58, president of the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players, issued a joint statement criticizing "open casting and staffing" in House productions as "definitely against the spirit of the University regulation which prohibits one undergraduate organization from duplicating the function of another...
...merger would result if a plan formulated and approved unanimously by the Harvard Opera Guild executive committee is accepted by the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players. It is understood that some executives of both organizations have approved the proposal in theory...
...Gilbert and Sullivan is a world bearing no great relation to any other theatrical or musical art. If the proper romping tone is perfectly sustained throughout, any failings become trivial; if it is not, the audience will be making paper planes of the programs before the production is ten minutes...
Director Richard Grand and most of his cast have mastered this tone; they maintain an almost perfect balance between the mock-serious and the ham. Some of the principals were weak singers, and the articulation--an important quality in Gilbert and Sullivan--was uneven in both productions. But the G. and S. Players always know what they are doing, and they seem to take pleasure...
...lead, George Brown, has an excellent voice and a great understanding of his roles. He sustained an expression of exquisite blankness throughout Trial which was most appropriate for the ineffectual defendant. In Pinafore, he performed his soupy lines and songs with a properly elaborate sobriety and with fine articulation. Gilbert would have been pleased...